Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:19:30 +0800 (WST) | From | Greg Mildenhall <> | Subject | Re: [Silliness] Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux |
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On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Actually, /dev/monkeys has already been implimented. To comply with Unix > tradition Linux has, of course, named this device a bit opaquely. The > actually device is named /dev/random. Unfortunatly, there are some > performances problems with it. I think you'll find you are mistaken. There are definitely characters you can get from /dev/random which are not possible from a typewriter, as per the infinite monkey spec. Of course, some ansi art[0] showing a _stage_ rendition of the complete works of Shakespeare would certainly put us ahead of the competition, but I fear this just raises seek times still further. :(
-Greg Mildenhall [0] possibly an oxymoron.
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